07-02-2021 20:19 via kvoa.com

Three Saudi youths get prison sentence instead of death

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Saudi Arabia’s Human Rights Commission says three young men who faced death sentences for acts they were accused of committing as minors have been handed a 10-year prison sentence instead. The youths from Saudi Arabia’s Shiite minority were detained separately in 2012 on charges stemming from their participation in anti-government Shiite protests that rocked the country’s eastern province and later faced beheading. The move comes nearly
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